Walter Mondale's presidential running mate Geraldine Ferraro dies aged 75 | US news | The Guardian US politics Walter Mondale's presidential running mate Geraldine Ferraro dies aged 75 Geraldine Ferraro leaves the legacy of being the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a major US party campaign Geraldine Ferraro campaigning in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1984 Photograph: Associated Press Associated Press Sunday 27 March 2011 16.57 EDT First published on Sunday 27 March 2011 16.57 EDT Close This article is 5 years old Geraldine Ferraro, who became the first woman vice-presidential candidate on a major US party ticket, has died, aged 75. Ferraro catapulted to national prominence in 1984 when she was chosen by presidential nominee Walter Mondale to run against incumbents Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr in 1984. In the end, Reagan won 49 of 50 states, the largest landslide since Franklin D Roosevelt's first re-election over Alf Landon in 1936.

But Ferraro had forever sealed her place as trailblazer for women in national politics in 1984. She paved the way for Hillary Clinton's historic presidential bid in 2008 and Republican John McCain's choice of a once obscure Alaska governor, Sarah Palin, as his running mate. Mondale said she was "a remarkable woman and a dear human being". "She was a pioneer in our country for justice for women and a more open society. She broke a lot of moulds and it's a better country for what she did." GERALDINE FERRARO IS CHOSEN BY MONDALE AS RUNNING MATE, FIRST WOMEN ON MAJOR TICKET GERALDINE FERRARO IS CHOSEN BY MONDALE AS RUNNING MATE, FIRST WOMEN ON MAJOR TICKET 'Difficult Decision' But Likely Nominee Says Representative From Queens Is 'Best' By BERNARD WEINRAUB Special to The New York Times RELATED HEADLINES Mondale Decision: Praise Ignores Risks Liberal Democrat From Queens: Geraldine Anne Ferraro Zaccaro How the Word Was Greeted OTHER HEADLINES Soviet-U.S.

Accord to Speed Hot Line Is Close To Signing: Reagan Pressing Other Talks to Show Kremlin Will Work With Him on Key Issues Britain Expels 2 Nigeria Aides And Bars Envoy Steps Urged to Help Curb Air Traffic Delays Buckling Up Is Now Law ST. PAUL, July 12 - Walter F. Mondale today named Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of Queens as his running mate, the first woman selected to run for Vice President on a major party ticket. Mr. Mondale, the probable Democratic Presidential nominee, announced his historic step before an ebullient crowd at the State Capitol. He introduced Mrs. Ferraro by saying: ''I looked for the best Vice President and I found her in Gerry Ferraro.'' ''This is an exciting choice,'' he said, with Mrs. Ferraro by his side. She Breaks Into a Grin The 48-year-old former teacher and assistant prosecutor from Queens broke into a wide grin as Mr. Mondale said, ''I'm delighted to announce that I will ask the Democratic convention'' to ratify her. Mr.

Mondale said the decision to choose a woman was a ''difficult'' one, but added: ''Gerry has excelled in everything she's tried, from law school at night to being a tough prosecutor to winning a difficult election, to winning positions of leadership and respect in the Congress.'' Mr. Mondale said her political rise was ''really the story of a classic American dream.'' He Cites the Constitution ''History speaks to us today,'' Mr. Mondale told the throng of state officials, supporters and journalists. ''Our founders said in the Constitution, 'We the people' - not just the rich, or men, or white, but all of us.'' ''Our message,'' Mr. Mondale went on, ''is that America is for everyone who works hard and contributes to our blessed country.'' Mrs. Ferraro, who was first elected to Congress in 1978, has received the endorsements for the Vice Presidency of Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., the Speaker of the House, Governor Cuomo of New York and a wide range of Democrats as well as feminists. Democratic advisers to Mr. Mondale say that her selection was clearly a signal that Mr.

Mondale wanted to focus, in part, on gathering support from blue-collar and trade union voters in such industrial states as New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. Increase in Energy Seen ''She's a woman, she's ethnic, she's Catholic,'' said one adviser to Mr. Mondale. ''We have broken the barrier. She will energize, not just women, but a lot of men who have fallen away from the Democrats.'' Another adviser to Mr. Mondale said that although Mrs. Ferraro had scant foreign policy and national security experience, unlike Vice President Bush, the Queens Democrat ''brings new chemistry, new passion, new unpredictability into the mix.'' In her remarks today, an obviously moved Mrs. Ferraro spoke of her Italian immigrant family's love for the United States, the concerns of her constituents in Queens and her selection by Mr. Mondale. She began by saying: ''Thank you, Vice President Mondale.

Vice President - it has such a nice ring to it.'' She went on: ''When Fritz Mondale asked me to be his running mate he sent a powerful signal about the direction he wants to lead our country.'' American history is about doors being open, doors of opportunity for everyone no matter who you are, as long as you 're willing to earn it.'' ''There's an electricity in the air, an excitement, a sense of new possibilities and of pride,'' Mrs. Ferraro told the enthusiastic audience moments later. Mr. Mondale's aides said the former Vice President decided shortly before 6 P.M. Wednesday to choose Mrs. Ferraro. ''Here goes,'' Mr. Mondale reportedly said as he phoned Mrs. Ferraro in San Francisco, where the Democratic convention starts Monday. With Peter Kyros, a Mondale aide, she later boarded a private jet at Oakland Airport for the late-night flight to the Twin Cities. Mr. Mondale's announcement came at noon here today before a brooding portrait of Abraham Lincoln. It was made in the same chamber where Mr. Mondale began his political career 23 years ago and where he started his Presidential drive in February 1983. Mr.

Mondale formerly served as Minnesota Attorney General and as a United States Senator before Jimmy Carter chose him for Vice President in 1976. Plan Hometown Visit Mr. Mondale and Mrs. Ferraro departed from the Mondale home in North Oaks for a family luncheon after today's announcement. They were scheduled to travel on Friday to Elmore, Minn., where Mr. Mondale grew up, to make their first joint campaign appearance. In the last three weeks Mr. Mondale interviewed seven prospective candidates and made it plain that he was seriously considering a break in precedent and selecting a woman or a member of a minority group instead of a white man. Ranking aides to Mr. Mondale indicated last week that Mayor Dianne Feinstein of San Francisco had outdistanced Mrs. Ferraro in her personal interview with Mr. Mondale, as well as in her press comments afterward. Some aides said Mrs. Ferraro had proved somewhat disappointing, a comment that angered Mr. Mondale. Factors in Choice Listed What apparently swayed the Minnesotan, Democratic officials said, was Mrs.

Ferraro's experience in Congress, the considerable support for her among members of the party leadership and, perhaps most important, her appeal to blue-collar voters coupled with her traditional liberal views, which seem to coincide with Mr. Mondale's. Mrs. Ferraro had emerged in recent weeks as the strong favorite among feminists, especially officials of the National Organization for Women. But Democratic advisers to Mr. Mondale said the decision in favor of Mrs. Ferraro was based heavily on the notion that her political strength would enhance Mr. Mondale's support in predominantly white, blue-collar and ethnic areas. Mrs. Ferraro underscored today her beliefs in strong family and religious values. Their Daughter With Them ''This choice says a lot about him, about where the country has come and about where we want to lead it,'' said Mrs. Ferraro, who was accompanied here by her husband, John Zaccaro, a real estate developer, and one of her three children, Laura, 18. ''Fritz called my road here the classic American dream,'' she said. ''He's right.'' Mrs.

Ferraro, who taught elementary school in Queens while attending Fordham Law School at night, noted that her father came from Marcianise, a small town in Italy. ''Like millions of other immigrants he loved our country passionately but what he loved most about it was that in America anything is possible if you work for it,'' she said. As Mr. Mondale listened intently, she said: ''I grew up among working people, straightforward solid Americans trying to make ends meet, trying to bring up their families and leave their country a little bit better off than when they moved here and found it. Those are my values, too. ''I have a strong, loving family. And our neighborhood and our faith are important parts of our lives. So is our work.'' 'Big Stake' for New Yorkers She added that the people of New York have a ''big stake'' in the Presidential election, saying that voters were ''terrified'' about possible changes in the Medicare system, cuts in Social Security, college costs and unemployment. ''And I know their fears about the future,'' she said. ''They love America. They support a strong, sensible defense but they want nothing to do with reckless adventures in Latin America.

And they want to get some talks going to stop this arms race before it destroys us all.'' Mrs. Ferraro said that her friend, Representative Charles B. Rangel, Democrat of Manhattan, phoned her earlier and said, ''Gerry, my heart is full.'' Mrs. Ferraro said quietly, ''So is mine.'' 1984 United States Presidential Election (President John Glenn) | Alternative History | Fandom powered by Wikia 1984 United States Presidential Election (President John Glenn) 40,675pages on Share Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected. ‹ 1980 United States presidential election, 1984 November 6, 1984 62.4% 37.6% Presidential election results map. Red denotes states won by Reagan/Bush (50), Blue denotes those won by Mondale/Ferraro (D.C.).

President before election Ronald Reagan Republican The United States presidential election of 1984 was a contest between the incumbent President Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate, and former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate. Reagan was helped by a strong economic recovery from the deep recession of 1981-1982. Reagan carried 49 of the 50 states, becoming only the second presidential candidate to do so after Richard Nixon's victory in the 1972 presidential election. Mondale's only electoral votes came from his home state of Minnesota which he won by fewer than 3,800 votes and the District of Columbia, which has always been considered a Democratic guarantee. Reagan's 525 electoral votes (out of 538) is the highest total ever received by a presidential candidate. Mondale's 13 electoral votes is also the 2nd-least ever received by a second-place candidate, second only to Alf Landon's 8 in 1936. In the national popular vote, Reagan received 58.8% to Mondale's 40.6%.

Contents Republican Party (United States) presidential primaries, 1984 Ronald Reagan, President of the United States from California Harold Stassen, former governor of Minnesota Ben Fernandez, Republican National Hispanic Assembly Chairman from California Candidates gallery Primaries Ronald Reagan—the incumbent president—was the assured nominee for the Republican Party. The popular vote from the Republican primaries was as follows: Ronald Reagan (inc.): 6,484,987 (98.78%) Unpledged delegates: 55,458 (0.85%) Harold Stassen: 12,749 (0.19%) Benjamin Fernandez: 202 (0.00%) Reagan was renominated by a vote of 2,233 (two delegates abstained). For the only time in American history, the vice presidential roll call was taken concurrently with the presidential roll call. Vice President George H. W. Bush was overwhelmingly renominated. This was the last time in the 20th century that the Vice Presidential candidate of either major party was nominated by roll call vote. The Balloting Walter Mondale, former U.S. vice president and former U.S. senator from Minnesota John Glenn, U.S.

senator from Ohio Jesse Jackson, reverend and civil rights activist from Illinois Gary Hart, U.S. senator from Colorado George McGovern, former U.S. senator from South Dakota Reubin Askew, former Governor of Florida Alan Cranston, U.S. senator from California Ernest Hollings, U.S. senator from South Carolina Candidates gallery Primaries Only three Democratic candidates won any state primaries: Mondale, Hart, and Jackson. Initially, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, after a failed bid to win the 1980 Democratic nomination for president, was considered the de facto front-runner of the 1984 primary. But, after Kennedy ultimately declined to run, former Vice-President Mondale was then viewed as the favorite to win the Democratic nomination. Mondale had the largest number of party leaders supporting him, and he had raised more money than any other candidate. However, both Jackson and Hart emerged as surprising, and troublesome, opponents. South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings' wit and experience, as well as his call for a budget freeze, won him some positive attention, but his relatively conservative record alienated liberal Democrats, and he was never really noticed in a field dominated by Walter Mondale, John Glenn and Gary Hart.

Hollings dropped out two days after losing badly in New Hampshire, and endorsed Glenn a week later. His disdain for his competitors sometimes showed. He notably referred to Mondale as a "lapdog" and to former Astronaut Glenn as "Sky King" who was "confused in his capsule." Jackson was the second African-American (after Shirley Chisholm) to mount a nationwide campaign for the presidency, and he was the first African-American candidate to be a serious contender. He got 3.5 million votes during the primaries, third behind Hart and Mondale. He won the primaries in Virginia, South Carolina, and Louisiana, and split Mississippi, where there were two separate contests for Democratic delegates. Through the primaries, Jackson helped confirm the black electorate's importance to the Democratic Party in the South at the time. During the campaign, however, Jackson made an off-the-cuff reference to Jews as "Hymies" and New York City as "Hymietown", for which he later apologized. Nonetheless, the remark was widely publicized, and derailed his campaign for the nomination.

Jackson ended up winning 21% of the national primary vote but received only 8% of the delegates to the national convention, and he initially charged that his campaign was hurt by the same party rules that allowed Mondale to win. He also poured scorn on Mondale, saying that Hubert Humphrey was the "last significant politician out of the St. Paul-Minneapolis" area. John Glenn of Ohio was a more serious threat to Mondale, and after winning several early primaries it looked as if he might take the nomination away from Mondale. Glenn criticized Mondale, comparing him to the McGovern of the 1972 Presidential Election. He emerged as a formidable candidate, winning the key New Hampshire, Ohio, and California primaries as well as several others, especially in the West and parts of the South. However, Glenn could not overcome Mondale's financial and organizational advantages, especially among labor union leaders in the Midwest and industrial Northeast. Glenn managed to also capture the imagination of the new generation on his proposed policy of reinvigorating NASA. His expansion included renewed missions to the Moon, a Lunar Outpost, and manned missions to Mars and Venus.

While the response was positive to what was now called the “Glenn Initiative”, it did not give Glenn the support he had hoped. At a roundtable debate between the three remaining Democratic candidates moderated by Phil Donahue, Mondale and Glenn got in such a heated argument over the issue of U.S. policy in Central America that Jackson had to tap his water glass on the table to help get them to stop. Mondale gradually pulled away from Glenn in the delegate count, but, as Time reported in late May, "Mondale ... has a sizable lead in total delegates ... because of his victories in the big industrial states, his support from the Democratic Establishment and the arcane provisions of delegate-selection rules that his vanguard helped draft two years ago.” After the final primary in California, on June 5, which Hart won, Mondale was short of the total delegates he needed to win the nomination. However, at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco on July 16, Mondale received the overwhelming support of the unelected superdelegates from the party establishment, narrowly giving him the required majority to win the nomination, despite having lost the popular vote within the primaries to Glenn by a sizable margin.

This race for the nomination was the closest in two generations, and it has been the most recent occasion that a major party presidential nomination has gone all the way to the convention. After Mondale's loss to Reagan in the general election in November 1984, Glenn quickly emerged as the frontrunner for the Democratic Party's 1988 presidential nomination, though he did not commit himself until ’86. Glenn would go on to defeat Reagan’s Vice President, George H. W. Bush in ’88. Endorsements Notable endorsements during the primaries included: Walter Mondale Lane Kirkland 1 When he made his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, Mondale said: "Let's tell the truth. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did." Although Mondale intended to expose Reagan as hypocritical and position himself as the "honest" candidate, the choice of taxes as a discussion point likely damaged his electoral chances. Vice-Presidential nominee Mondale chose U.S. Rep. Geraldine A.

Ferraro of New York as his running mate and she was confirmed by acclamation, making her the first woman nominated for that position by a major party. Aides later said that Mondale was determined to establish a precedent with his vice presidential candidate, considering San Francisco Mayor (Later U.S. Senator) Dianne Feinstein and Governor of Kentucky Martha Layne Collins, who were also female; Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African American; and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Hispanic, as other finalists for the nomination. Unsuccessful nomination candidate Jackson derided Mondale's vice-presidential screening process as a "P.R. parade of personalities", however he praised Mondale for his choice, having pledged, himself, to name a woman to the ticket in the event he was nominated. Others however preferred Senator Lloyd Bentsen because he would appeal to more conservative Southern voters. After the delegates had voted, Glenn was supposed to endorse Mondale, as requested by the Democratic National Committee. However, during his speech, instead of endorsing him, Glenn said, “I ask my supporters to do only one thing, vote for the man you think would run this country the best.

Do base your decision on what they say, or what they do, but on their actions. If those actions represent what you believe in, then you’ve found your president.” Many believe that last quote was in fact an endorsement of incumbent President Reagan, but Glenn never actually campaigned for him during the election. However, he has at the same time never directly answered the question when it is put to him. Ferraro, as a Catholic, came under fire from some members of the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church for being pro-choice on abortion. Further controversy erupted over statements regarding the release of her husband John Zaccaro 's tax returns. Other parties David Bergland was the nominee of the Libertarian Party. His running mate was James A. Lewis. The Bergland-Lewis ticket appeared on 39 state ballots. The Communist Party USA ran Gus Hall and Angela Davis. General election Campaign Mondale ran a liberal campaign, supporting a nuclear freeze and the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). He spoke against what he considered to be unfairness in Reagan's economic policies and the need to reduce federal budget deficits. At a campaign stop in Hammonton, New Jersey, Reagan said, "America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts.

It rests in the message of hope in songs of a man so many young Americans admire, New Jersey's Bruce Springsteen." The Reagan campaign briefly used “Born in the U.S.A.", a song criticizing the treatment of Vietnam War veterans (which they mistakenly thought was devoid of anti-war content), as a campaign song, without permission, until Springsteen, a lifelong Democrat, insisted that they stop. The Reagan campaign was very skilled at producing effective television advertising. Two of the more memorable ads it produced were commonly known as "Bear in the woods" and "Morning in America". By 1984, Reagan was the oldest president to have ever served, and there were many questions about his capacity to endure the grueling demands of the presidency, particularly after Reagan had a poor showing in his first debate with Mondale on October 7. He referred to having started going to church "here in Washington", although the debate was in Louisville, Kentucky, referred to military uniforms as "wardrobe," and admitted to being "confused," among other mistakes. However, in the next debate on October 21, Reagan effectively neutralized the issue by quipping, "I will not make age an issue of this campaign.

I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience." Results Reagan was re-elected following the November 6 election in an electoral and popular vote landslide, winning all 50 states. Reagan won a record 535 electoral votes total (of 538 possible), and received 62 percent of the popular vote. Mondale's 3 electoral college votes (The District of Columbia) marked the lowest total of any major Presidential candidate. Mondale's defeat was also the worst for any Democratic Party candidate in U.S. history in the Electoral College, though others, including George McGovern, John W. Davis, and James M. Cox, did worse in the popular vote. Psephologists pointed to "Reagan Democrats" — millions of Democrats who voted for Reagan. They characterized such Reagan Democrats as southern whites and northern blue collar workers who voted for Reagan because they credited him with the economic boom, saw Reagan as strong on national security issues, and perceived the Democrats as supporting the poor and minorities at the expense of the middle class.

As of 2008, the 1984 election was the last time that a Republican presidential candidate won the states of Hawaii, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. Close states Margin of victory less than 5% Minnesota, 3.18% Walter Mondale | vice president of United States | Britannica.com vice president of United States Written By: Alternative Title: Walter Frederick Mondale Walter Mondale Vice president of United States Also known as Walter Mondale, in full Walter Frederick Mondale (born January 5, 1928, Ceylon, Minnesota , U.S.), 42nd vice president of the United States (1977–81) in the administration of President Jimmy Carter and Democratic candidate for president in 1984 . Walter Mondale, 1984. Diana Walker—Time Life Pictures/Getty Images Mondale was the son of Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, a Methodist minister, and Claribel Cowan. He was an early activist in Minnesota’s Democratic–Farmer-Labor Party and worked on the U.S. Senate campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1948.

Graduating from the University of Minnesota law school in 1956, Mondale served as state attorney general from 1960 until his appointment in 1964 to fill Humphrey’s unexpired Senate term when Humphrey won election as vice president under Lyndon B. Johnson . Walter Mondale. © Alon Reininger/Contact Press Images/PNI At the Democratic National Convention in 1964 , when two delegations from Mississippi—one composed of civil rights activists from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), representing African Americans who were barred from participation in Mississippi’s primaries—sought recognition as the official delegation from that state, Mondale served as the chair of an ad hoc committee charged with responsibility for settling the crisis. He proposed a compromise, which was accepted by the convention but rejected by the MFDP, providing official seating to the white delegation, two at-large delegates for the civil rights group, and a promise that the rules governing Mississippi’s primary process would be changed. Mondale, a “flexible liberal,” won election to the Senate in 1966 and reelection in 1972. He served on the Senate Finance and Budget committees and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare.

Elected vice president as Carter’s running mate in 1976 , he was a key participant in the negotiations between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that resulted in the Camp David Accords . The Carter-Mondale ticket was defeated for reelection in 1980 by Ronald Reagan and George Bush . Mondale captured the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and chose Geraldine A. Ferraro as his running mate, the first woman vice presidential candidate for a major party. They lost the election overwhelmingly to Reagan -Bush. Afterward Mondale practiced law until he was appointed ambassador to Japan (1993–96) by President Bill Clinton . In 2002 Paul Wellstone , the Democratic senator from Minnesota, was killed in a plane crash while campaigning to retain his seat, and the Democratic Party nominated Mondale to take Wellstone’s place on the ballot. Mondale accepted the nomination but was narrowly defeated by Republican Norm Coleman. A memoir by Mondale, The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics, was published in 2010. Walter Mondale discussing domestic protest against the Vietnam War, 1975.

Stock footage courtesy The WPA Film Library Button from Walter Mondale’s 1984 presidential campaign, also showing his running mate, Geraldine … Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Results of the American presidential election, 1984… Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Geraldine Ferraro Joins the Democratic Ticket - HISTORY.com Audio Geraldine Ferraro Joins the Democratic Ticket (3) Geraldine Ferraro Joins the Democratic Ticket After presidential candidate Walter Mondale announced Rep. Geraldine Ferraro as his choice for running mate on July 12, 1984, Ferraro addresses the audience at the Minnesota State Capitol. Ferraro was the first female vice presidential candidate to run on a major ticket. Geraldine Ferraro Joins the Democratic Ticket (3 min) tv-14 After presidential candidate Walter Mondale announced Rep. Geraldine Ferraro as his choice for running mate on July 12, 1984, Ferraro addresses the audience at the Minnesota State Capitol. Ferraro was the first female vice presidential candidate to run on a major ticket.

Related Speeches & Audio Walter Mondale Fast Facts - CNN.com Walter Mondale Fast Facts CNN Library Updated 10:33 AM ET, Wed December 21, 2016 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. (CNN) Here's a look at the life of Walter Mondale, 42nd vice president of the United States.

Personal: Birth date: January 5, 1928 Birth place: Ceylon, Minnesota Father: Theodore Mondale, a Methodist minister Read More Mother: Claribel (Cowan) Mondale Marriage: Joan (Adams) Mondale (December 27, 1955-February 3, 2014, her death) Children: William Mondale, February 27, 1962; Eleanor Mondale, (January 19, 1960-September 17, 2011); Theodore "Teddy" Mondale, October 12, 1957 Education: University of Minnesota, B.A., 1951; University of Minnesota, L.L.B, 1956 Military Service: US Army, 1951-1953, Corporal Religion: Presbyterian Other Facts: Nicknamed "Fritz." Mondale announced during his acceptance speech at the 1984 Democratic nominating convention that he would raise taxes in order to reduce the budget deficit. "Let's tell the truth. . . Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I.

He won't tell you, I just did." Mondale made history by naming a woman, US Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (NY), as his running mate. Colorado Sen. Gary Hart defeated Mondale in the New Hampshire primary in 1984 and had initial success positioning himself as the candidate of new ideas, until Mondale remarked, "When I hear your new ideas, I'm reminded of the [Wendy's] ad, 'Where's the beef?'" Timeline: 1956-1960 - Lawyer in private practice. 1960-1964 - Attorney General of Minnesota. 1964 - Appointed US Senator from Minnesota after Hubert H. Humphrey is elected vice president. 1966 - Wins re-election to the Senate. 1972 - Wins re-election to the Senate. 1975 - Publishes his book, "The Accountability of Power: Toward a More Responsible Presidency." July 15, 1976 - Jimmy Carter asks Mondale to be his vice presidential running mate on the Democratic ticket.

January 20, 1977-January 20, 1981 - Mondale serves as vice president under President Jimmy Carter. November 4, 1980 - Carter and Mondale are defeated in the presidential election by Ronald Reagan . 1981-1987 - Member of the firm Winston & Strawn. July 1984 - Democratic presidential candidate Mondale chooses US Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro (NY) as his running mate, the first woman vice presidential candidate for a major party. November 1984 - Mondale and Ferraro are defeated in the presidential election by Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush . 1987-1993 - Partner at Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis. 1993-1996 - US Ambassador to Japan under President Bill Clinton. 1997 - Rejoins Dorsey & Whitney as partner and senior counsel. 1998 - Envoy to Indonesia under President Clinton.

October 30, 2002 - In Minnesota, becomes the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party's candidate, filling the ballot position of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, who died October 25, 2002, in a plane crash while campaigning for re-election. November 11, 2002 - Is defeated by Norm Coleman (R) in the race for the US Senate. June 24, 2008 - Accepts position as chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation , a non-profit organization that promotes US-Asia relations. August 1, 2008 - Becomes Norway's honorary consul general for Minnesota. October 16, 2008 - "Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story," a documentary about Mondale's life, premieres at the Minnesota History Center. January 20, 2010 - Resigns from Norwegian honorary consul general post. October 2010 - Publishes a memoir, "The Good Fight: A Life in Liberal Politics," with David Hage. February 12, 2014 - Undergoes successful heart surgery in Rochester, Minnesota.

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Dayen tells Scheer that anger over foreclosures has fueled this year\'s bitter and unusual presidential race. The tw... Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Walter Mondale. CHILDHOOD 1928 Birth Born on January 5, 1928. TWENTIES Show Less Mondale was born in Ceylon, Minnesota, and graduated from Macalester College in 1951. … Read More He then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War before earning a law degree in 1956. Read Less Mondale attended public schools. He then attended Macalester College in St. Paul, and the University of Minnesota, where he earned a B.A. in political science in 1951. … Read More He did not have enough money to attend law school. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served for two years at Fort Knox during the Korean War, reaching the rank of corporal. Read Less He married Joan Adams in 1955. He married Joan Adams in 1955. 1956 28 Years Old Through the support of the G.I.

Bill he graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1956. … Read More While at law school, he served on the Minnesota Law Review and as a law clerk in the Minnesota Supreme Court under Justice Thomas F. Gallagher. He then practiced law in Minneapolis, and continued to do so for four years before entering the political arena.<br /><br /> Mondale became involved in national politics in the 1940s. At the age of 20, he was visible in Minnesota politics by helping organize Hubert Humphrey's successful Senate campaign in 1948. Humphrey's campaign assigned Mondale to cover the staunchly Republican 2nd district. Mondale, who had been raised in the region, was able to win the district for Humphrey by a comfortable margin.<br /><br /> After working with Humphrey, Mondale went on to work on several campaigns for Orville Freeman. Mondale worked on Freeman's unsuccessful 1952 campaign for governor as well as his successful campaign in 1954 and his re-election campaign in 1958.

Read Less THIRTIES Show Less Mondale was subsequently elected to a full Senate term in 1966 and again in 1972, resigning that post in 1976 as he prepared to succeed to the vice presidency in 1977. … Read More While in the Senate, he supported consumer protection, fair housing, tax reform, and the desegregation of schools. Importantly, he served as a member of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities ("Church Committee"). Read Less Mondale was elected to the Senate for the first time in 1966, defeating Republican candidate Robert A. Forsythe, by 53.9% to 45.2%. FORTIES 1969 - 1974 3 More Events 1969 41 Years Old During the Johnson presidency, Mondale supported the Vietnam War, but after Richard Nixon became President in 1969, he began to oppose it and participated in legislation aimed at restricting Nixon's ability to prolong the war.

… Read More Mondale is pro-choice on the issue of abortion.<br /><br /> Mondale rotated on and off numerous committees, including the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee; the Finance Committee; the Labor and Public Welfare Committee; the Budget Committee; and the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. He also served as chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Education Opportunity and as chairman of the Intelligence Committee's Domestic Task Force. He additionally served as chairman of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee's subcommittee on Children and Youth, as well as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on social security financing.<br /><br /> In 1967, Mondale served on the Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee, then chaired by Clinton P. Anderson, when astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward H. White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire on January 27 while testing the Apollo 204 (later renumbered Apollo 1) spacecraft. NASA Administrator James E. Webb secured the approval of President Lyndon B. Johnson for NASA to internally investigate the cause of the accident according to its established procedures, subject to Congressional oversight.

NASA's procedure called for the Deputy Administrator (and de facto general manager), Dr. Robert C. Seamans, to appoint and oversee an investigative panel. Read Less 1972 44 Years Old In 1972, Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern offered Mondale an opportunity to be his vice presidential running mate, which he declined. … Read More That year, Mondale won reelection to the Senate with over 57% of the vote, even as President Nixon carried Minnesota. He served in the 88th, 89th, 90th, 91st, 92nd, 93rd, and 94th congresses.<br /><br /> Mondale worked hard to build up the center of the party on economic and social issues. Unlike his own father, a fervent liberal, he was not a crusader for the New Deal. Instead he realized the Democratic base (especially ethnic blue-collar workers) was gradually moving to the right and he worked to keep their support.

Read Less 1974 46 Years Old Mondale showed little or no interest in foreign policy until about 1974, when he realized that some knowledge was necessary if he had loftier aspirations than the Senate. … Read More He developed a centrist position, avoiding alignment with either the party's hawks (such as Henry M. Jackson) or its doves (such as George McGovern). He took a liberal position on civil rights issues, which proved acceptable in Minnesota, a state with "a minuscule black population". Mondale was a chief sponsor of the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits discrimination in housing and created HUD's Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity as the primary enforcer of the law. Read Less 1975 47 Years Old In 1975, Mondale served on the Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church, that investigated alleged abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Show Less In 1976, Carter, the Democratic presidential nominee, chose Mondale as his vice presidential running mate in the forthcoming election.

… Read More The Carter/Mondale ticket defeated incumbent president Gerald Ford and his vice presidential running mate, Bob Dole. Read Less When Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination for president in 1976, he chose Mondale as his running mate. The ticket was narrowly elected on November 2, 1976, and Mondale was inaugurated as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1977. … Read More He became the fourth vice president in four years, the other three being: Spiro Agnew (1969â73), Gerald Ford (1973â1974), and Nelson Rockefeller (1974â77).<br /><br /> Under Carter, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating the administration's foreign policy. His travels also included a visit to the, which was on station at the time in the Indian Ocean, during the Iranian hostage crisis. Mondale was the first vice president to have an office in the White House and established the concept of an "activist Vice President." Mondale established the tradition of weekly lunches with the president, which continues to this day.

More importantly, he expanded the vice president's role from that of figurehead to presidential advisor, full-time participant, and troubleshooter for the administration. Subsequent vice presidents have followed this model in the administrations in which they serve. Read Less 1977 49 Years Old … The lecture was a part of a continuing Senate "Leaders Lecture Series" that ran from 1998 to 2002. <br /><br />In 2002 Democratic U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, who was running for re-election, died in a plane crash just 11 days before the November 5 election. At the age of 74, Mondale replaced Wellstone on the ballot, at the urging of Wellstone's relatives. Read Less This Senate seat was the one that Mondale himself had held, before resigning to become Vice President in 1977. … Read More During his debate with the Republican nominee, former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman, Mondale emphasized his own experience in foreign affairs while painting Coleman as a finger-in-the-wind opportunist.

"We've seen you shift around, Norman", Mondale said, alluding to Coleman's past as an anti-war college activist and, more recently, as a Democrat who had changed his party allegiance to the GOP while serving as mayor of St. Paul.<br /><br /> Mondale lost the election, finishing with 1,067,246 votes (47.34%) to Coleman's 1,116,697 (49.53%) out of 2,254,639 votes cast, earning him the unique distinction of having lost a statewide election in all 50 states as the nominee of a major party (he lost the other 49 in the 1984 Presidential Election).

Upon conceding defeat, Mondale stated: "At the end of what will be my last campaign, I want to say to Minnesota, you always treated me well, you always listened to me." Read Less FIFTIES Show Less … Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American Democratic Party politician who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States (1977â81) under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator from Minnesota (1964â76). Read Less He was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in the United States presidential election of 1984, but lost to Ronald Reagan in a landslide. … Read More Reagan won 49 states while Mondale was only able to win his home state of Minnesota and Washington D.C. Read Less In 1984, Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination and campaigned for a nuclear freeze, the Equal Rights Amendment, an increase in taxes, and a reduction of U.S. public debt.

… Read More After his defeat by Reagan, Mondale joined the Minnesota-based law firm of Dorsey & Whitney and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (1986â93). Read Less Mondale ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1984 election, and from the early going, he was the frontrunner. … Read More His opposition included Rev. Jesse Jackson and Senator Gary Hart of Colorado. Hart pulled an upset by winning the New Hampshire primary in March, but Mondale had a large portion of the party leadership behind him. To great effect, Mondale used the Wendy's slogan "Where's the beef? " to describe Hart's policies as lacking depth. Jackson, widely regarded as the first serious African-American candidate for president, held on longer, but Mondale clinched the nomination with the majority of delegates on the first ballot.<br /><br /> At the Democratic Convention, Mondale chose U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York as his running mate, making her the first woman nominated for that position by a major party.

Aides later said that Mondale was determined to establish a precedent with his vice presidential candidate, considering San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein (female and Jewish); Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, an African American; and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, a Mexican American, as other finalists for the nomination. Others preferred Senator Lloyd Bentsen because he would appeal to the Deep South, or even nomination rival Gary Hart. Ferraro, as a Catholic, came under fire from some Catholic Church leaders for being pro-choice. Much more controversy erupted over her changing positions regarding the release of her husband's tax returns, and her own ethics record in the House. Ferraro was on the defensive throughout much of the campaign, largely negating her breakthrough as the first woman on a major national ticket, and the first Italian American to reach that level in American politics. Read Less 1986 58 Years Old … In the election, Mondale was defeated in a landslide, winning only the District of Columbia and his home state of Minnesota, and even there his margin of victory was fewer than 3,800 votes, securing only 13 electoral votes to Reagan's 525.

The result was the worst electoral college defeat for any Democratic Party candidate in history, and the worst for any major-party candidate since Alf Landon's loss to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. <br /><br />Mondale received 37,577,352 votesâa total of 40.6% of the popular vote in the election. Mondale received 40â49% in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. <br /><br />Following the election, Mondale returned to private law practice, with Dorsey & Whitney in Minneapolis in 1987. Read Less From 1986 to 1993, Mondale was chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. LATE ADULTHOOD 1990 62 Years Old … Until his appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Mondale was a Distinguished University Fellow in Law and Public Affairs at the Hubert H.

Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Read Less In 1990 Mondale established the Mondale Policy Forum at the Humphrey Institute. … Read More The forum has brought together leading scholars and policymakers for annual conferences on domestic and international issues. He also served on nonprofit boards of directors for the Guthrie Theater Foundation, the Mayo Foundation, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the Diogenes Institute of Higher Learning, the Prince Hall Masonic Temple, the RAND Corporation, and the University of Minnesota Foundation. His corporate board memberships included BlackRock Advantage Term Trust and other BlackRock Mutual Funds, Cargill Incorporated, CNA Financial Corporation, the EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica, First Financial Fund, and other Prudential Mutual Funds, Northwest Airlines, and United HealthCare Corporation. Read Less

Question: Who was Walter Mondale's female running mate in the 1984 US Presidential election?
Answer: (Geraldine) Ferraro